Vanessa Paradis has given an insight into her split from Johnny Depp, talking of the 'fragility' of love.
'Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life,' she told Harper's Bazaar.
In an interview given just two days before announcing that her relationship was at an end, the French singer said love wasn't something that should be 'worked' at.
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Vanessa and Johnny announced the end of their 14-year relationship earlier this year.
The 39-year-old gave a hint of what was to come in her interview, talking about being in love but finding it was making you 'unhappy'.
'When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier,' she said.
You keep learning all the time. Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.'
Depp, 49, and Vanessa have two children, Lily-Rose, 13, and Jack, 9.
She and the American star, who never married, had not been seen at a public event together since 2010.
Vanessa did not attend any of the promotional events for recent film Dark Shadows or The Rum Diaries, in which he starred alongside blonde bisexual actress Amber Heard, 26, whom Depp has been romantically linked to.
Vanessa also talks about her rise to fame as a pretty 14-year-old, with her hit Joe le Taxi.
'I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened,' she said. 'But nobody pushed me to do it. I wanted to sing, to dance, to work.'
Vanessa now divides her time between France and Los Angeles, where her children attend school.
But she says she does not plan on conforming to the American idea of beauty, and will not be having plastic surgery.
'I don't work in America, so I don't feel the pressure.'
And as to looking for a new partner, she says: 'Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.'
